Frances Wright Quotes
And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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I'm the diva from the future. The next gig's on the moon. Catch me while you can.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.
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I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.
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Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.
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Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
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The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.
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O man! Prepare yourself for the Hereafter, obey Allah to the extent of your need for Him and anger Him to the extent of your patience in Hell.
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People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am.
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Brazil is on my side.
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It is weird. People will say, 'Oh my God, I love you.' And I'll say, 'Oh, that's so sweet. Thank you.' And the people who are walking around with me for the first time will say, 'I don't understand what happened. Somebody just told you they love you. I don't even understand what that means.'
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
